

Security Council, UN mission condemn attack near Afghanistan's Supreme Court
An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: UNAMA/Ari Gaitanis 8 February 2017 – The Security Council and the United Nations political...
Genocide Watch
Feb 8, 2017


13,000 people hanged in secret at Syrian prison, Amnesty says
By Joshua Berlinger and Lauren Said-Moorhouse (CNN)-Thousands of people have been hanged at a Syrian prison in a secret crackdown on...
CNN 1
Feb 7, 2017
Syria: Secret campaign of mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya Prison
A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass...
Amnesty International
Feb 7, 2017


Syria has secretly executed thousands of political prisoners, rights group says
Sednaya prison outside the Syrian capital Damascus where thousands were secretly executed, according to a report by Amnesty...
Washington Post
Feb 6, 2017
Court of Genocide to Be Formed in Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has voiced its consent for forming a special court to investigate the genocide in the Kurdistan...
Leyla Hemid | Basnewss
Feb 5, 2017


UN, Kurdish Official Express Concern for Post-ISIS governance in Mosul
Any scaling down of international support in Iraq after the military defeat of ISIS would have “grave consequences” for the country and...
Rudaw
Feb 3, 2017


Iraq prelate backs preference for minority refugees fleeing genocide
Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Archeparchy of Erbil, Iraq. (Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.) Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil tells...
Crux Staff
Feb 2, 2017
The KRG’s Relationship with the Yazidi Minority and the Future of the Yazidis in Shingal
Following the closure of Yazda, a Yazidi humanitarian and human rights organization, by the KDP asa’ish (security police affiliated with...
Matthew Barber | NRT
Feb 1, 2017


'Daesh Raped Iraqi Christian Woman for Two Days' Until She Was Rescued
Sputnik Arabic obtained documents confirming the atrocities committed by Daesh against Iraqi Christians. The documents mention a female...
Sputnik
Jan 31, 2017


Christians May Not Return To Mosul For Years, If At All, Experts Warn
A woman fleeing the fighting between Islamic State and the Iraqi army in the Intisar district of eastern Mosul.Reuters An Iraqi Christian...
James Macintyre | Christian Today
Jan 31, 2017


Portugal Offer To Take Iraqi Refugees Rebuffed As Favoritism
As a member of a persecuted minority in Iraq, 24-year-old Shaker Mahie has seen his people massacred, raped and scattered across a new...
Fox News
Jan 25, 2017


Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders
Bulgarian border police stand near a barbed wire fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish border on July 17, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Bulgarian law...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 20, 2017